Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Tweetajob: A new service to help people find work via Twitter

Twitter can be used to spread the word on just about anything -- disputed elections in Iran, celebrity spottings in L.A. and what you had for dinner 20 minutes ago at the restaurant around the block. Now, a new startup from Seattle is trying to use Twitter to circulate something that should be of interest in these tough economic times: job postings.

Tweetajob is a new service that's launching today under the direction of Carmen Hudson -- the former senior manager of talent acquisition at Yahoo and a former recruiter at Microsoft, Amazon.com and Starbucks -- and Kapenda Thomas -- the former CEO of search service Jookster. The idea is to help corporate recruiters target Twitter job postings to high-quality candidates...